Bag-holder



G. E. CORBIN..

Bag Holder. Y No. 57,683. .Patented Sept. 4, 1866.

Wavwsses UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

GILBERT E. GORBIN, OF ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN.

BAG-HOLDER.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,683, dated September -1, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GILBERT E. CORBIN, of St. Johns, in the county ot' Clinton and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication.

For the transportation ot1 grain and other articles of commerce or trade, woven or other textile bags have been generally employed to contain them but to till the bags has heretofore occupied and required much time and labor, owing to the diliiciilty experienced in holding the mouth of the bag sufficiently open to allow the grain to be freely and readily thrown into the same, an additional person being necessary to hold the bag while another was engaged in lling it with the material desired. rlhis, it is manifest, is expensive, and, besides, disadvz'mtageons in many other respects, and to produce a device by which the mouths ot' bags could be held open has been the object of many inventions hitherto patented in this country, but most of which have failed to attain the desired end, for many reasons, among which may be mentioned their complication of parts, and their nonadaptability to bags of varying sizes ot' mouths, requiring a separate one for each and every size, &c.

To produce a bag-holder that will be snsceptible of adjustment to any ot' the varying sizes of the bags is the principal object ofthe present invention, and is accomplished thereby, as will be seen from the following` detail description thereof,ret`erence being had to the accompanying plate of drawings, ot' which- Figure l is a front elevation or view of my improved bag-holder attached to an inclined board; Fig. 2 a side, and Fig. 3 a rear, elevation of the same.

a c, in the drawings, represent a board orand having hooks ff engaging and interlocking with lixed staples g g, upon each side of the inclined board a, whereby the supportingframe is prevented from moving and held rigid and firm.

The frame c consists of two legs, 7L h, made ot' wire or other suitable material, connected together at their upper and at a short distance from their lower ends by cross bars or rods l l, the upper one of which turns in the staples d, before referred to.

m, the head r holder by which the mouth of the bag to be tilled is held open whiie the material is being inserted in the same, made of metal or any other suitable flexible material, and of a semieireular form, having each of its ends partially coiled, and terminating in projecting' arms n, with` an eye or loop, o, at their outer ends,-itting over fixed staples p p, on the upper side of the inclined board a, one ot' which, p, is of sufticient length to allow the loop ot' the holder placed upon it to be moved toward or from the outer end ot' the holder by simply bearing down with the foot upon the treadle r of the supporting-i'rame, connected with it by a cord, s, passing through a guiding-aperture in the board a.

In the use of the bag-holder, arranged as hereinabove described, the mouth ot' the bag is placed around and upon the circular bar or holder m, and in and between the coiled ends of the same and the board, as plainly represented in partial section by Fig. 2, when its own weight causes the bar to bind and tightly hold it against the board, turning by its eyes or loops upon the staples of the same, while the grain or other article is being inserted in it, as is evident without further explanation, the holder, as the bag increases in weight from the grain placed in it, correspondingly tightening its grasp and hold upon the bag.

When bags of varying sizes of months are used, in order to place the bags upon the holder it is only necessary to draw its ends toward each other by bearing down upon the treadle r sufficiently to allow the mouth of the bag to be placed upon and entirely around it, when, by removing the foot from the treadle, the bar springs back, thus drawing and holding the mouth of the bag open, as desired.

In lieu of arranging the bag-holder upon an inclined board, as described, which position is 2- v l amies themostfavora-ble one when the grain is thrown I claim as new and desire to secure by Letinto the bags by means of seoop-shovels,itcan ters Patentbe as Well attached directly to the side of a The arrangement of the board a and eX- barn or other suitable place, or to a boa-rd of panding holders m u, operating substantial] y the proper size and shape having` rings or as described and represented.

- hooks for hanging it upon xed staples of the barn, so that the bags will hang` in a vertical GILBERT E. CORI-EIN. position, or nearly so, the most convenient one, i when measures are used, for filling them.

A stirrup, R, may be used in place of the treadle 1' bysimpl y eonneetin git with the oord s.

Witnesses:

PORTER K. PERRIN, WM. SIoKRLs.l 

